Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category

Los Angeles,CA – February 3, 2013 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading online wedding marketplace, is thrilled to announce that John & Max Mills Photography has been selected as a winner of the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards® 2013 for Photography in Los Angeles, California!

The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top five percent of wedding professionals in the
WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism. John & Max Mills Photography’s selection as a Bride’s Choice Award 2013 winner was selected based on the positive experiences expressed by past clients on WeddingWire, the world’s largest wedding review site with over one million reviews. While many industry awards are given by the host organization, the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards® winners are determined solely based on reviews from real newlyweds and their experiences working with John & Max Mills Photography.

The WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards® 2013 are given to the top local wedding vendors in more than
20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on professional achievements from the previous year. Award-winning vendors are distinguished for the quality, quantity, consistency and timeliness of the reviews they have received from their past clients. As a Bride’s Choice Awards winner, John & Max Mills Photography is highlighted within the WeddingWire Network, which is comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States, Canada and abroad.

“Each year, WeddingWire looks forward to celebrating the success of the top-rated wedding professionals
within the WeddingWire Network,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Now in its fifth year, the Bride’s Choice Awards® program continues to recognize the elite wedding professionals who exemplify a commitment to quality, service and professionalism. These businesses were chosen by our bridal community for their responsiveness and dedication to their clients over the past year. We are honored to recognize John & Max Mills Photography for their impressive achievements within the wedding industry.”

John & Max Mills Photography is thrilled to be one of the top photographers in Los Angeles, CA in the WeddingWire Network of sites, which include leading wedding sites such as WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. We value all of our clients and truly appreciate the positive feedback that helped us earn the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards® for 2013.

About WeddingWire, Inc.
WeddingWire®, the nation’s leading marketplace serving the $70 billion wedding industry, is the only
online wedding planning resource designed to empower both engaged couples and wedding professionals. For engaged couples, WeddingWire offers the ability to search, compare and book over 200,000 reviewed wedding vendors, from wedding venues to wedding photographers. WeddingWire also offers a comprehensive suite of online planning tools for weddings, including wedding websites and wedding checklists, all at no charge. For wedding professionals, WeddingWire is the only all-in-one marketing platform for businesses online and on-the-go. WeddingWire offers one simple solution to build a professional network, improve search visibility, manage social media and reach mobile consumers. Businesses that advertise with WeddingWire appear on WeddingWire.com, ProjectWedding.com and other leading sites, including MarthaStewartWeddings.com, Brides.com and Weddingbee.com.

Planning a wedding can be overwhelming and stressful. You have a checklist of services and vendors you need to meet with and hire. Where do you start? You have a limited budget, and you need to prioritize what is most important to you. So how do you do it?

If it were up to us, photography would be first on the list, but we want to hear from you! How would you rank the following services?

-wedding venue

-officiant

-band/dj

-photography

-videography

-flowers

-makeup

-dresses

-photo booth

-catering

Leave us comments ranking these services in terms of importance to you!

We’ve been wanting to bring up this subject for a little while. Photoshop is an amazing program, that can allow photo editors to do all sorts of remarkable things. We sometimes use it to cut strangers/objects out of the background of a picture. We’ll use it to open somebody’s eyes in a photo, or lighten/darken a photo a little bit. We also use it for minor color corrections. However, there are some things we don’t do with Photoshop. We try not to change the overall photo. We are experts at capturing sunsets/sunlight/natural colors, so if there’s a sunset, we capture it perfectly. Our finished product always accurately reflects what the day looked like.

But we’ve noticed a trend towards using Photoshop to move away from an accurate portrayal of the day. In the example below, the editor uses a picture taken in broad daylight and turns it into a magnificent sunset photo.

While the end result is a breathtaking photo, it is essentially fake; the rocks, clouds, and sun NEVER looked like that.Yes, the after picture (right) is amazing. But you can go camp out at that spot for a year and never witness that scene. But our question to you is, do you prefer it? If you were looking back over your wedding pictures, engagement pictures, or pictures from another event, would you prefer they accurately reflect the day (left) or would you prefer them to be dramatic and breathtaking, even if the day looked nothing like it (right)?

Below is another example:

They are both great photos. But if the one on the right looks kind of fake to you, that’s because it is. The sky and water were never that deep a blue with the vibrant orange sun. Again, we are curious which you would prefer? Let’s get a discussion going in the comments.